334 Mr. G. T. Betliune-Baker's 



posed of six spots, the first isolated, the second to the fifth somev; hat 

 conflaent in a curve with the fifth shifted well inwards, the sixth 

 spot shifted outwards ; the submarginal stripe consisting of lunules ; 

 the terminal row is spotted, Avith a subanal black spot having blue 

 metallic scales and an internal edging of orange colour. 



$. Upperside, both wings brown v/ith the basal two-thirds 

 suffused with bright blue scales ; the blue area in the secondaries is 

 more restricted, otherwise as in the male. 



Expanse, (J 40-46 ; $ 44—54 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony ; Kaffirland ; Natal ; Zululand ; 

 Transvaal; Mashuna; Somaliland; Northern Rho- 

 desia; KiBWEZi {Jackson); Abyssinia (British Museum). 



Types in the Joicey collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagines long, broadish at the bas^e, tapering 

 very rapidly into the usual narrow arm-like process, with the lower 

 margin concave and the upper convex, terminating in a sjjatulate 

 apex that is somewhat dentate; there are longish bristles for the 

 whole length, in some specimens few, and in others very numerous; 

 anellus with the front edge curved; aedoeagus of moderate length 

 and width; cingulum rather narrow; tegumen a narrowish ridge 

 at tlie rear with small cheeks less projected forward than usual, 

 v/ith long, strong falces; cheeks with a good-supply of bristles. 



Androconia variable. The typical series in the Joicey collection 

 have them oblong in shape, distally with a very slight curve, proxim- 

 ally very similar, but tajiering oft' slightly to the attachment stalk; 

 seven or eight rows of reticulations }>laced well apart, Avhose sculptur- 

 ing is definite and well apart also. 



In other specimens that are quite inseparable super- 

 ficially, the androconia are rounder and broader, with twelve 

 rows of reticulations placed closely together, whose sculptur- 

 ing is also close. 



I have thought it advisable to figure Trimen's type again 

 so as to present to the student the distinctions between 

 it and its near allies. 



Neoehrysops carsoni Butler. Plates XIV, fig. 6 ; XXI, 

 fig. 43 ; XXX, fig. 43. 



Catochrysops carsoni Butler, Ann. and Mag. N. H., Seventh 

 Series, 1901, p. 290. 



(^. Both wings violet blue with the termen rather broadly brown ; 

 the primaries have the cell closed with a brown dash ; the secondaries 



